Superintendent Mark Manchin called into the Mike Queen show on WAJR and confirmed that actions would be taken against students who opt out, saying it would allow kids to opt out of other rules that the school has such as smoking in front of the school.

Manchin also compared opting out to driving 80 mph down the highway. He added, “We simply can not allow them to opt out.”

“If we allow that door to open, where people can unilaterally decide what parts of public education they adhere to and which they don’t, I think we’re creating a system that will be very, very difficult to work with.”

He added, “Parents don’t have the right to pick and choose the provisions of public education in which they feel they want to comply with.”

Manchin says “We will send a message to all the parents here in Harrison County.”

We spoke to Mr. Madia after his Facebook post who said he will not back down on this issue.

“I am going to instruct my child to not take the test,” Madia said. “He will not be punished.”

Listen to Manchin continue threatening students and parents with suspension below…

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Rusty Weiss is a freelance journalist focusing on the conservative movement and its political agenda. He has been writing conservatively charged articles for several years in the upstate New York area, and his writings have appeared in the Daily Caller, American Thinker, FoxNews.com, Big Government, the Times Union, and the Troy Record. He is also Editor of one of the top conservative blogs of 2012, the Mental Recession.